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An ambulance at the site after a fire broke out at a dingy five-storey building housing several hotels on Mirza Ghalib Street, leaving at least nine people, including a four-year-old child and two women, dead and six others injured in this incident, in Kolkata, West Bengal, early Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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People gather at the site after a fire broke out at a dingy five-storey building housing several hotels on Mirza Ghalib Street, leaving at least nine people, including a four-year-old child and two women, dead and six others injured in this incident, in Kolkata, West Bengal, early Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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West Bengal Cabinet Ministers Agnimitra Paul and Tapas Roy, state MoS Purnima Chakraborty and others at the site after a fire broke out at a dingy five-storey building housing several hotels on Mirza Ghalib Street, leaving at least nine people, including a four-year-old child and two women, dead and six others injured in this incident, in Kolkata, West Bengal, early Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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West Bengal Cabinet Minister Agnimitra Paul, centre, and state MoS Koushik Chowdhury, front left, at the site after a fire broke out at a dingy five-storey building housing several hotels on Mirza Ghalib Street, leaving at least nine people, including a four-year-old child and two women, dead and six others injured in this incident, in Kolkata, West Bengal, early Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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Police personnel present at the site after a fire broke out at a dingy five-storey building on Mirza Ghalib Street, leaving at least nine people, including a four-year-old child, dead and six others injured in the incident, in Kolkata, West Bengal, early Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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Policemen and other officials stand near a hotel which caught fire early Wednesday in Kolkata. | Photo: AP/Bikas Das
